Manuel Nikel-Zueger

Manuel Nikel-Zueger was a Research Associate at PERC, where his studies focused on property rights, fisheries, and energy. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Arizona and spent a season in Alaska gillnetting and processing salmon.

Articles by Manuel Nikel-Zueger

This Policy Series challenges a popular romantic myth—the idea that Native Americans had little regard for property rights. The experience of Native American salmon fishing off the northwestern coast of the United States and the southwestern coast of Canada refutes this notion.